May 29, 2021
Today, Australian broadcasting legend Stan
Grant joins me to talk about friend of the show
Jonathan Wilson’s quasi-debut ‘Gentle Spirit’.
Stan opens up about how he discovered the record while dealing with
PTSD and the emotional fall out of years embedded in war zones as a
foreign correspondent.
We talk about how this album revealed Wilson as a songwriter and
artist in his own right, as he was mainly known as a great producer
and instrumentalist. We break down the influences on the record,
from Neil Young to Pink Floyd to
The Beatles and more, and how Wilson stays on the
right side of inspiration rather than pastiche.
We talk about why Stan never became a musician himself, his
memories of seeing Wilson play live in LA and how music has
influenced Stan’s writing.